Authors like Sadeqa Johnson

• Yaa Gyasi — Homegoing
• Honorée Fanonne Jeffers — The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
• Tara M. Stringfellow — Memphis
• Robert Jones, Jr. — The Prophets
• Brit Bennett — The Vanishing Half
• Ta-Nehisi Coates — The Water Dancer
• Jesmyn Ward — Sing, Unburied, Sing
• Colson Whitehead — The Underground Railroad
• Dolen Perkins-Valdez — Wench
• Lawrence Hill — The Book of Negroes (also published as Someone Knows My Name)
• Toni Morrison — Beloved
• Octavia E. Butler — Kindred
• Jocelyn Nicole Johnson — My Monticello
• Beverly Jenkins — Indigo
• Alice Randall — The Wind Done Gone